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WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Lot 8
22.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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ID 1536634
Lot 8 | WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
A Mountain Climber Resting
oil on canvas
10 ½ x 14 ½ in. (26.7 x 36.8 cm.)
Painted in 1869.




Provenance

Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jonas Chickering, Boston, Massachusetts, (probably) acquired from the above, circa 1869.
Mrs. George L. Nichols, New York, by descent from the above.
Metropolitan Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 6-7 January 1914, lot 45, sold by the above.
Robert Meade Parker, New York, acquired from the above.
Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1944.
Millicent Rogers, Washington, D.C., 1944.
Paul Peralta-Ramos, New York, by descent from the above, 1953.
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1980.
Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan.
Virginia von Schlegell, Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.



Literature

"Art Matters," Boston Sunday Times, November 14, 1869.
P.J. Sachant, "Winslow Homer in the White Mountains, 1868-1870: Portraits of an Uncertain Nation," Historical New Hampshire, vol. LIV, Fall-Winter 1999, pp. 149-51, illustrated.
R.L. McGrath, Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Syracuse, New York, 2001, pp. 156-57, fig. 111, illustrated.
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 to March 1881, vol. II, New York, 2005, pp. 97-98, no. 345, illustrated.
G.S. Davidson, et al., Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2006, pp. 48, 50, fig. 59, illustrated.
M. Simpson, Winslow Homer: The Clark Collection, exhibition catalogue, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2013, p. 52n140.



Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, November 1869.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer, October 15, 1995-January 28, 1996, p. 78, no. 24, illustrated.
Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Portland, Maine, Portland Art Museum; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, June 26, 2020-February 28, 2021.
Artist:Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Auction house category:Paintings
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